The Shape of Our Existing Buildings Jeffry Burchard, July 20, 2021. Essay. Machado Silvetti Principal, Jeffry Burchard writes about the critical practice of evaluating and extending the use of existing buildings.
Project Stories: Horace Mann School January, 2023. The design process behind the renovation to create a temporary new home for Boston Public Schools' Horace Mann School, the oldest public day school for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing in the United States.
Project Interview
The Architecture of Cultural Heritage The Menokin Stabilization, The Getty Villa, Qasr al Muwaiji. October, 2022. Part I of Jeffry Burchard and Patrick Ruggiero's interview with Jorge Silvetti discussing the office’s approach to cultural heritage. The Ideas and Architecture of Qasr al Muwaij Qasr al Muwaiji, December, 2015. Part II of Jeffry Burchard and Patrick Ruggiero's interview with Jorge Silvetti discussing Qasr al Muwaiji.
The Getty Villa: Beginnings April 2015 The Getty Villa: Beginnings is based on a lecture by Jorge Silvetti recounting the competition phase of the project and the concept that emerged during the design process.
Reflections on The Times Square Competition April 2014 Rodolfo Machado's entry for the 1984 Times Square Tower Competition is currently featured in an exhibit at the Skyscraper Museum in New York.
Concept to Construction
Denver Art Museum’s New Grand Stair Stephanie Randazzo Dwyer & Lucia Valentin, May 2020. The story behind the Welcome Center's new public stair, its innovative use of terrazzo and the reimagining of Gio Ponti's work as a form of preservation.
Ringling Façade Jeffry Burchard, December 2017. The design and development of a very green building.
Not Just Green Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture With an attention to communities and education, The Stone Barns Center offers a unique approach to what it means to be green.
Sustainable Master Planning Tun Razak Exchange The introduction of a new and varied elevated topography simultaneously accommodates the everyday mechanisms of the urban environment while creating a platform for a successful, efficient and pedestrian-oriented landscape above.
Greening an Oasis Qasr Al Muwaiji The Landscaped Surroundings of Qasr al Muwaiji.
Ensuring Green Futures Provincetown Art Association Museum It is a basic responsibility of Architecture to imagine and implement a future made better through sustainable practices.
Project Stories
Benton Museum of Art The story behind the planning and design of Pomona College's new art museum
Vietnamese-German University The story behind the campus planning and building designs for VGU, a new "academic town" in Vietnam
Denver Art Museum The design process behind the revitalization and expansion of the Denver Art Museum
Kennedy Center for Theatre and the Studio Arts The new Kennedy Center for Theatre and the Studio Arts—a building combining studio arts and theater programs for Hamilton College Clinton, New York.
Back of House A look at the back of house spaces that make some of our best academic and museum projects run.
Dewey Square The process behind Dewey Square, Machado Silvetti's design for a modern-day urban space with a single contemporary character, unique within the city.
Atelier 505 The design of a successful mixed-use building in Boston's Historic South End.
Robert F. Wagner, Jr. Park The story behind Machado Silvetti’s design for a celebrated waterfront park at the southern tip of Manhattan.
The New Moderns January 2000 A chapter from Douglass Shand-Tucci's 'Built in Boston' establishing Machado Silvetti as a premier Boston design firm.
